Field Placement 2
| Course Code | AMHW-410 |
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| Course Availability | Open |
| Description | Field Placement 2 represents the culminating experiential learning component of the program, providing learners with advanced opportunities to integrate classroom knowledge with professional practice across diverse mental health, substance use, and addiction service settings. Building on the foundational learning developed in Field Placement 1, learners engage more fully in frontline practice, taking on increased responsibility in relational engagement, service coordination, care planning, documentation, group facilitation, outreach, and interdisciplinary collaboration. Grounded in the understanding that community members are experts in their own lives, learners continue to work alongside individuals with lived and living experience, deepening their capacity for relational, trauma-informed, and anti-oppressive practice. Placement experiences reflect the complexity of real-world environments, where individuals may be navigating intersecting challenges related to mental health, substance use, addiction, trauma, safety, stability, and access to care. Learners further develop their ability to respond to these contexts with professionalism, humility, and ethical awareness, while working within their scope of practice and supporting navigation of complex systems and services. This advanced placement emphasizes increased autonomy, accountability, and professional judgment. Learners are expected to take a more active role in service delivery while continuing to receive supervision and feedback from qualified field instructors. Emphasis is placed on ethical decision-making, collaboration with interdisciplinary teams, and the application of holistic biopsychosocial approaches in practice. Reflective practice remains central as learners critically examine their professional growth, relational approaches, and evolving identity as emerging practitioners. Learners engage in ongoing reflection grounded in real-world experiences, supported through supervision, dialogue, and peer learning. Field Placement 2 also strengthens learners’ capacity for sustainable practice through both self-care and collective care. Learners examine the cumulative impact of exposure to crisis, grief, and systemic inequities, and apply strategies that support resilience, accountability, and long-term professional well-being. By the end of Field Placement 2, learners demonstrate readiness for entry-level professional practice and the ability to integrate trauma-informed, relational, ethical, and reflective approaches across diverse and complex mental health, substance use, and addiction service environments. |